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Add Gmail to the list of reasons why Big Tech must open its black boxes
nypost ^ | 05/03/2022

Posted on 05/03/2022 6:59:28 AM PDT by devane617

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Just shows the all-out push to steal an election in 2020 extended wide and far.
1 posted on 05/03/2022 6:59:28 AM PDT by devane617
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Wow. Just wow.


2 posted on 05/03/2022 7:01:21 AM PDT by Ciexyz (Prayers for America.)
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If email ads affect how you’re going to vote.... Just sayin’.


3 posted on 05/03/2022 7:01:43 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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They didn’t try to hide it.


4 posted on 05/03/2022 7:02:22 AM PDT by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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Well, I think their suspicion is that it might make a difference in contributions, which isn’t quite as weird. Plus, it shows how thorough they are in leaving no stone unturned, no matter how iffy the results should be.


5 posted on 05/03/2022 7:05:27 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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If email ads affect how you’re going to vote.... Just sayin’.

Try reading the article. The bias affected fundraising, not voting.

6 posted on 05/03/2022 7:09:27 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
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Headers make the day. 😊🙌


7 posted on 05/03/2022 7:10:59 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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I would say not doing what they promise costs them more in fundraising than what google is doing.


8 posted on 05/03/2022 7:13:51 AM PDT by pas
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Get this regulated so that ALL political ads go to spam folder.


9 posted on 05/03/2022 7:16:19 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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Remember big tech was canceling and/or outing conservative sites after the 2020 election? Trump supporters getting fired due to support of Jan 6th efforts. Lots of talk of ditching big tech social media, using Googleless phones and non tracking search engines, etc., etc. Talk was of the real possiblity of the new admin helping big tech in those efforts. I did a total op sec cleanup in all areas. I’m not worried about social credit nonsense because there are no bread crumbs being dropped. But I think many have fallen back to sleep.


10 posted on 05/03/2022 7:16:53 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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There are lots of weak-minded people out there with no common sense or interest in politics...yet they DO vote. I have no doubt they can be influenced by this. The thing about the Dems is they don't use just one cheating technique. They use scores or hundreds and, while each one may be small, when COMBINED, they have a huge effect.
11 posted on 05/03/2022 7:23:45 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Instead of criminalizing guns, we need to criminalize criminals.)
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The bias affected fundraising, not voting.

True, but every message delivered has a cumulative effect. If people are getting "D" messages, even thought they may not donate, it can have an effect on their voting. I'd guess that many weak-minded and uninformed people respond to an inbox full of "D" messages and a dearth of "R" messages. They could infer that the "D"s are a lot stronger party and deserve their vote. Remember, it's not the one single technique that tilts an election, but the combined effect of scores or hundreds of such techniques the D's deploy.

12 posted on 05/03/2022 7:28:02 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Instead of criminalizing guns, we need to criminalize criminals.)
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I noticed a bunch of GOP and Trump fundraising email in spam the other day. I also noticed it sends firearms advertising to spam at an alarming rate as well.


13 posted on 05/03/2022 7:28:38 AM PDT by The Unknown Republican
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...As the Republican National Committee sums it up in its complaint to the Federal Election Commission, the Gmail algorithm sent GOP fundraising e-mails to spam at a rate 820% higher than Dem ones.

This sort of examples of malfeasance on the part of Big Tech is why the Left is so freaked out about Elon buying Twitter. They never thought someone from outside the cabal might come in and lift the lid on how Big Tech has been systematically biasing searches, email, suppressing news, etc.


14 posted on 05/03/2022 7:31:06 AM PDT by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
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LOL! Yeah, since I didn’t read anything past the header originally, upon further reading it appears that the goggle folks misdirect the stuff concerning fund raising. But, again, if emails get you to cough up money........ All the crap I get goes to the trash immediately if not sooner when it comes to political correspondence. Unless it’s boiler plate responses from my (s)elected (non)representatives. Then it gets saved. For what, I don’t know. :>}


15 posted on 05/03/2022 7:32:11 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Outlook censors e-mail based on the title.


16 posted on 05/03/2022 7:33:33 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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This is obviously an illegal in-kind campaign contribution from Alphabet to the Democrat party.


17 posted on 05/03/2022 7:36:04 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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ping


18 posted on 05/03/2022 7:36:49 AM PDT by dennisw
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It should have been obvious to every one for many years that using google for anything is dumb.


19 posted on 05/03/2022 10:22:39 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: devane617; Observator; semimojo
In yet another sign of Big Tech bias, it turns out Google’s Gmail program leans strongly Democratic — automatically sending Republican fund-raising mail to users’ spam folders far more often than the Democratic ones in the runup to the 2020 elections.

Ping. You guys still think you are on the right side of this?

20 posted on 05/03/2022 10:32:56 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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